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The New Orleans Crescent says: The
present revolution is continually develop
ing the resources and enterprise of the
people of the South, ami the citizens of
Nc«" Orleans particularly. During the
past four or live months, we have noticed
the establishment in the city, of manu
factories for the production of various ar
ticles, for which, in former times, we were
entirely dependent upon the Kortli or
Europe. These establishments are all in
successful operation, and are paying as
well as could be possibly expected. Others
are in the course ot erection, and, if things
continue like they are a few months longer,
there will be few articles consumed here
which will not be made by our own peo-
ple.
We called a few days since at the house
of Messrs. E. Maiqucze & Co., shoe
merchants of Canal street, and, on being
informed that they had started manufactur
ing shoes suited to the wants of the army,
we expressed a desire to witness the op
eration in all its departments and were
politely shown through the house. The
manufacturing is done in the second and
third floors of their large building, and a
busy place it is sure enough. In the second
floor we found some fifteen or twenty men
engaged in cutting the leather into shape,
and preparing the upper leathers for the
bottoms. They worked rapidly and skill
fully, turning out work enough each day to
keep up with the hands engaged in finish
ing up stairs.
In the next floor, however, we saw the
most interesting sight. There we found
some sixty or seventy men, sitting round
low tables, upon which lay the working
tools of their craft, hammering, cutting,
pegging and trimming away with a rapid,
orderly kind of confusion, which would
convince even the most inexperienced
observer that they were up to their work,
and bent on making the most out of each
day. Here we saw the. upper leather and
and soles, which were cut out down stairs,
rapidly stretched over lasts of different
sizes, pegged, hammered and trimmed into
handsome and serviceable shoes in so short
a space of time tiiat the beholder could
liardly believe his eyes.
Observing the great number of small
wooden pegs in the bottom of shoes, one
would suppose that it was a tedious opera
tion to place them there so smoothly and
and regularly, but we were undeceived by
the skillful artizans who were at work here.
We watched one, and seeing him about to
commence the pegging operations, drew out
our watch and timed him. In exactly
eight minutes he had finished putting in
two rows of pegs in a pair of shoes, and
that, too, without knowing that we were
timing his work; if lie had. perhaps he
would have finished in much less time. In
this room over two hundred pairs of shoes
are finished, ready for sale, each day.—
These shoes are strong and stout, made of
well tanned leather, and come up high on
the leg to prevent accidents to the ankle,
and hav c double soles to keep oufejKe
wet.
To Mr. McMaster is principally due the
credit or» , ani»-** T o this manufactory.—
lie saw the scarcity of lit army shoes in
the market, and determined to make the
attempt to supply the demand by a home
production. At first sight the magnitude
of such an undertaking does not appear,
but when it is considered that material is to
be supplied in large quantities and with
regularity, in a section where leather is
scarce, and few tanneries exist; that work
men are to be procured that can be de
pended upon, and who are skillful in that
particular kind of work, it will be then
understood that Mr. McM. had to en
counter obstacles which were calculated to
somewhat daunt his enterprise; but he
weut with a good heart and a determina
tion to succeed, and his present success is
proof that lie was up to the emergency.
To procure leather it was necessary to go
to Texas and established tanneries or make
permanent contracts with those that were
established, and to procure labor, to a cer
tain extent, he had to teach the trade to
every man he employed. But he did all
this, and is now producing as good a shoe
as was ever offered in the market, at
figures as low as those brought by an in
ferior article. We are glad to be able to
state, too, that he finds no difficulty in
selling. In fact, such is the demand for
his shoes that he is forced to make pur
chasers wait sometimes before lie can fill
their orders.
[From the Columbus Corner Stone ]
Mill Harping upon Party.
The Macon Journal & Messenger seems
disposed to complain that Judge Starnes
has been appointed Tax Collector for
Georgia, instead of Judge Cabiness, and
thinks that too many old Democrats are
appointed. What’s the difference? Don’t
we all belong to the same party? Every
body says so. Why the way to keep up
old party distinctions is to appoint one
man, because lie was an old Whig, and
another because be was an old Democrat.
Now suppose Davis bad acted upon this
principle and appointed Cabii.ess because
he was an old Whig, Starnes would have
complained that he was excluded because
he was an old Democrat. It would Lave
been very cold comfort to him that some
other old Democrat had been appointed to
some other office. All the old Whigs and
all the old Democrats belong to Davis’
party, he can’t give office to ail of them,
at least lie can’t give all of them offices
with a salary of two thousand dollars a
year; we expect lie can accommodate most
of them with a place at eleven dollars a
month. As to the offices with large salaries
he must select those of his party who in
his opinion are best qualified to discharge
the duties of the office and if he does this
nobody has any right to complain.
But why should the Journal & Mes
senger complain? It and Davis and Cabi
ness and Starnes all belong to the same
party. One of its party has been selected,
a gentleman every way competent and
faithful. Now we did not care a straw
which of those two men were appointed,
or whether it had been somebody else, we
should have been satisfied with Cabiness,
we are satisfied with Starnes, we don’t
care if Davis makes all Bis appointments
from old Whigs, or old Democrats.
But the whole truth of the matter after
all is, that tbere is a great mistake in sup
posing there are no parties. There is just
as much party as there ever was; the old
Whig party was worn out, the Democratic
party bad grown so large that while it bad
in addition to its own, absorbed all the cor
ruptions of the old Whig party; the
spoils had not increased in proportion.
The power of the party and consequently
the disposition of the spoils was concen
trated in a few hands and of course a large
portion of the party was as much cutoff
as if they had belonged to the opposi
tion.
The dissolution of the Union of course
destroyed all rdd party organizations at
the South, hut it did not destroy the desire
for power and its emoluments. Every
body of course claims to belong to the big
party, but there are in it a dozen parties
each trying to get to the top. Whenever
it is finally settled who is the gang that is
safely seated and feels strong enough to
kick all the rest off. why then, of course,
there will be two big parties.
Now what is the remedy for all this?
The complaint of the Journal & Mes
senger against the appointment of Starnes
makes it all as plain as day. Reduce all
the salaries. There are a thousand men
in Georgia every way as competent as
either of these gentlemen who would be
willing to do the work and would do it as I After being in the water for a long time,
well and as faithfully for half the salary i he landed and crawled three-fourths of a
and if the salary Were one thousand dol- j mile to a house. There he found some
lars instead if two we should have no com-! friendly-disposed people; two Catholic
plaint of party preferences. And what- girls Washed him and dressed him, put a
ever may be said in favor of high salaries, “scapula” found bis neck for protection,
there can be no better evidence that they I placed him in the bottom of a pairing*-,
aic all greatly too large, than the fact that ! and, themselves concealed him with their
they are sought with so much avidity and ! garments, drove to a friend s house, where
that there is so much bitterness in the con-; he was taken care ot.
test for them.
Now is the time for the people to move
in the matter of the reduction of them.
Let us now require of the members of the
Legislature to reduce every salary- of the
State officers, and as members of Congress
are soon to be elected, let no man be
elected, who will not advocate tlia reduc
tion of those of the Confederacy.
Proclamation by A. N. Johnston.
Columbus, Ky-„ Sept Sept. 22, 18G1.
Whereas the armed occupation of a part
of Kentucky by- the United States, and the
preparations which manifest the intention
of their government to invade the Confed
erate States through that territory, have
imposed it upon these last, as a necessity
of self-defense, to enter that State and meet
the invasion upon the best line of military-
operations; ami whereas, it is proper that
the motives of the government of the Con
federate States in taking this step should
be fully- known to the world: Now,
therefore, I, Alberts. Johnston, General
and Commander of the Western Depart
ment of the Army of the Confederate
States of America, do proclaim that these
States have thus marched their troops into
Kentucky with no hostile intention toward
its people; nor do they- desire to seek to
control their choice in regird to their
union with either of the Confederacies, or
to subjugate tlieir State or hold i's soil
' against their wishes. On the contrary,
! they deem it to be the right of the people
of Kentucky to determinate their own po
sition in regard to the belligerents. It is
| for them to say whether they will join ei
ther Confederacy, or maintain a separate
I existence as an independent sovereign
| State. The armed occupation of tlieir soil,
i both as to the extent and duration, will
therefore be strictly- limited by the exigen-
' cies of self-defense on the part of the Con
federate States. These States intend
j to conform to all the requirements of pub
lic law and international amity, as be-
j tween themselves and Kentucky-, and ac-
; cordingly 1 hereby- command all who arc
! subject to my orders, to pay entire respect
! to the rights of property- and the legal au-
j thorities within that State so far astlie same
j may be compatible with the necessities of
: self-defense.
If it be the desire of the people of Ken
tucky to maintain a strict and impartial
| neutrality, then the efforts to drive out the
lawless intruders, who seek to make their
j State the theatre of v.-rr will aid them in
| the attainment nf tlieir '.visiles. If, as it
| may not be uur* .sona 1 -■* to suppose, these
! people desire to unite their fortunes with
: :tie Confederate States to whom they are
’ already bound by so nuny ties of interest,
! then the appearance of Confederate troops
will assist them to make an opportunity
I for the free and unbiased expression of
| their will upon the subject. But. if it be
true, which is not to be presumed, that a
majority of these people desire to adhere
to the United States, and become parties
to the war, then none can doubt the right
of the other belligerents to meet that war,
whenever and wherever it may be waged.
But harboring no such suspicion, I now de
clare in the name of the Government which
I serve, that its army- shall be withdrawn
from Kentucky so soon as there shall be
satisfactory evidence of the existence and
execution of a like intention on the part of
the United States.
By- order of the President of the Con
federate States of America.
A. S. JOHNSTON,
General Commanding the Western De
partment of the Army of the Confed
erate States of America.
Exlrnorriinnry Eacnpr rmni the Ilnntl*. of Ihr
llraiiana.
Adjutant Geo. TV. Alexander's Escape from
Fort Ale Henry—His sa fe Arrival Among
his Friends.
We had an interview last night with
Adjutant Geo. W. Alexander at the Pow
hatan Hotel, where lie arrived yesterday
from Gen. Johnston’s head-quarters. His
escape and subsequent adventures are
equal to a French romance.
After Colonel Thomas and Alexander
bad captured the St. Nicholas, they started
upon another expedition; and by- one of
those unaccountable accidents the Colonel
was captured. Alexander was at this time
in charge of a schooner, steering boldly up
the Chesapeake. The weather came on
squally and very bad; and seeing suspic
ious movements among some steamers, lie
concealed his men in the hold of the ves
sel, placed his brother-in-law at the helm,
and he himself on deck disguised as an oys-
terman, he ran into Annapolis and anchor
ed under Fort Seveni. At daylight got
under way and stood over to Chester river.
Here a terrific gale threw his little craft
high upon Eastern Neck Island. lie then,
in disguise, boarded the steamer “Arrow,”
got the papers and saw the account of the
Colonel’s airest, then placed the main
body of his men under the charge of Lieu
tenant Blackiston, with orders to him to
make the best ofbis way to Virginia,
across the Bay and through Calvert coun
ty; which Blackiston succeeded nobly in
doing. Alexander then, with his brother-
in-law and two men, started for Accomac,
down the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Everything went on swimmingly until he
arrived at Cambridge, where, one of the
party being recognized by Judge Spence, I that Washing!
and lie being a relative, Monteithlike, JuXLffaire; i*
proved a traitor and infoimed on them. In 1
a short time Governor Hicks ordered out
the Dorchester Guards; the hotel was sur
rounded, and they were taken in custody,
dragged to the common jail, placed in a
room, and kept until morning. I hen close
The next day a man of war was hauled
into the river, and fired guns for a long
time to raise Alexander’s body supposing
he must have beeu drowned. Alter this,
friends of the cause in Maryland conveyed
him from place to place by night for con
cealment, until at last lie was carried to
the shore of the Potomac. Here, by the
merest accident, lie fell in with Lieut. Du-
nott, who had escaped from M ashington,
and George Bear, a young man who was
making his way to Portsmouth; Li. Al
exander purchased a boat. Dunott ami
Bear carried him on their shoulders a mile.
Bear tore off liis coat-skirts and muffled the
oars, and although the guard vessel was
within 150 yards, they quietly pushed oft
and succeeded in reaching the A irginia
shore in safety. A man, taking the boat
for remuneration, carried them in bis con
veyance to Gen. Johnston’s pickets.
Alexander speaks very feelingly of bis
friend Lieut. Dunott, who while bearing
him on his back, at every alarm turned to
face the danger, thus showing the devotion
of one soldier to another.
[From the London times ]
Impossibility of Restoring tlie i'nion.
Were England at this moment to announce
lo the world its intention lo make the speediest
possible conquest of France, or were France to
make the same declaration as to England, the
world would laugh al the egregious folly that had
inspired the design and prompted the boast. The
world would grant that, supposing either people
lo bo infatuated enough and obstinate enough, it
could inflict enormous and irreparable injuries on
the other, but only at the cost of equal injuries
to itself. The ball once started, fortune might
befriend this side or that; it might give to either
great victories on periods of advantage: it might
even place one eventually over the lipad of the
other, hut still only at a cost utterly out of pro
portion to the value of the miserable result. Now.
that is the case of the two Confederacies across
the Atlantic, where the surviving half of an effete
Federal Union has undertaken to reduce to other
half to its Federal duties.
We say that this is the case, hut before we pro
ceed a step further, it is necessary to observe that
the case of tire Northern Americans is in some
important respect more difficult then ours would
be They are not so united as we have always
found ourselves in war. Their lJorder States teol
a divided allegiance. They have to protect more
than a thousand miles of land frontier, including
one closely be leaguered porition surrounded by
foes or ill-affected adherents. Speaking the same
language as their foe, they have no means of ex
cluding spies from their lines, or even traitors
from their ranks. They have to make a standing
army and a fleet. '1 hey have to learn the first
elements of tactics, and even military discipline.
They are without soldiers, or officers to command
and train them. Their revenue, at its best, before
the war. was only just sufficient to meet the inter
est of the debt likely to be incurred by two ye : rs
of the war ou its present scale. That revenue,
however is, to begin with, maimed by the loss
of the seceders and by-the stoppage of traffic, so
fhat it is questionable whether it will be possible
to do more than repair that luss by the new taxes
now imposed.
Am lican credit is r.ot so good as British nor
is the credit ot a Federal Union in process of dis
solution lisely to be equal to that of a united peo
ple Lastly, war. which changes its character
according to circumstances, establishes special
rules of probability for different localities. The
one rule established by all American warfare is,
that the advantage is on the side of defence. Our
offensive operations always failed against fortified
position; against breastworks thrown up in a night,
against forest full of an invisible foe; against lieat,
hunger and thirst; against the evil imminent flank
attack; against the certainly that every step di
minished the numbers tbestrength, and the muni
tions of our men, and increased those of the ene
my. The present war might, for ils incidents, he
a chapter in our own disastrous cars on that soil.
Northerners have advanced upon a fortified position
but a day’s march from Washington. They have
arrived at the point, with a force already melting
away, far short of the list on paper, beaten with
heat, hunger, thir-t, and a iong march, and sur
prised on both flanks by the sudden outpourings
»f railways. While this has occured in Virginia,
almost w ithin sight of Washington, a column of
Federalists, advancing against a foe thrice
tlieir number, has met with the same fate, no
doubt lor much the same reason, at Springfield
four or five hundred miles to the West—as if in
order to warn the Northern States that what has
happened is no accident, no result of p< culiar cir
cumstance or personal failure, hut by inevitable
rule.
There is but one enterprise which can he com
pared to this, and that is the first Napoleon’s gi
gantic, but infatuated attempt upon Russia. That
was a case of a great political alliance, as grand
as a Federal Union, comprising the best, the
wealthiest, and the most populous part, and the
best soldiers on the continent of Europe, advan
cing into a territory, the sparse and poor popula
tion of which scarcely surpassed that of the inva
ding host. Winter might be the immediate cause
out it was also the apology of the tremendous
rout that ensued. If any one will attempt to com
pare the means of the Federalists with those of
Napoleon, he will find then: far inferior in every
respect; while there is no doubt that the South
ern States are far more able to defend every point,
every position, every line in their territory, than
the Russians were in theirs. They have moun
tain. oils ranges instead ot steppes: they have
a population accustomed to carry arms, and only
too glad to use them; they have railways, and
abundance of food and other necessaries of war.
They are evidently superior in generalship, and
in the social organization best adapted for war.
The result is that thus far they have shown tiiey
can dispute every inch,and keep the invaders always
under tlie apprehension of being either out flanked or
driven back upon his own capital. Against all this it
can only be said that the Northern States have the
preponderance in white men, in money and in credit.—
These, indeed, would he important considerations if
the Southern States were invading the Northern, and
seriously preparing to drive every armed Northerner
into the St Lawrence. They would he important
if this were the ordinary case of two countries at war
with one another. But it is not. The Northerners are
engaged in the reduction of the Southerners.---They
are acting on the offensive against a foe which on ils
own land, is content to net ou the defensive, excepting
only that, should the opportunity occur, it would ad
vance its line ef defence to include the capital. Expe
rience shows that under ordinary circumstances a com
parative small population, with little money and means
of war, issuflicleut for a very good defence.
in a condition to offer advice. We can ad-
V\<
vise tiicNorthern States of America, as we can ad
vise the legitimate Princes and the despotic Courts of
Europe. Eel the statesmen at Washington only do
what England has done before a hundred times, and
what all Europe lias done, is doing, and will still do. It
i is not ‘‘Old World” advice. It is not of the leaven
tori and F; a ikiinfult it theirmission to ex-
lsthe very latest and newest lesson of !iu-
mucli newer than steam, the electric tele
graph or rifled camion. Do the Northern States really
belong to tbe New World, orare they only a bit of the
Old World, with all its pride, its bigotry, audits tyran
ny, stranded on the western shore of the Atlantic ? The
advice was given them is wliat they have taught us
before, and we only say to them, as many a son may
say to his father, “Practice what you teach.” Let the
Nirtbern States “accept the situation,” as we did
ly guarded, they were conveyed to the cughty years ago upon tlieir own soil; as Austria did two
...1 e • J -i | years ago at V illatraneaand Zurich. In t them count
steamer. ()n the ll liarf an immense throng ! the cost before they march forth to drive lialta million
surrounded Governor Hicks, and shouted
loudly lor the habeas corpus. Alexander
J demanded of Governor Hicks to he trea-
i ted as a gentleman. T he Governor replied.
I “You are in the bands of the military.” “I
I am glad to hear it,” said Alexander, “for
! I thought 1 was in your hands.”
Here the crowd attempted a rescue; but,
overpowered by numbers, Alexander was
borne on board the steamer and conveyed
to Fort McHenry. His wife, who was in
\ irginia at the time, immediately saw
President 1 *avis, who kindly assured her
I that everything possible should he done to
j save him. She then went to Maryland,
I procured a pass to visit iter husband, and
| at once commenced the invention of plans
tor his escape. She procured a Federal
officer’s uniform, a clothes line, and an in-
flating life-preserving waistcoat. These
she smuggled to his cell beneath her gar
ments During the arrangement she pur
chased plants and made for her husband a
little garden at his cell window, thus dis
arming all suspicion that any escape was
meditated
Sixteen daj s ago, everything being in
readiness, just after dark, Alexander don
ned his disguise, and while Col. Zarvona
(I hornas) engaged the attention of the sen
tinel, he slipped by, gained the ramparts,
passed over the inortar battery, and sprang
from the curtain into the ditch. The fall
being great, he discovered, on rising, that
he was crippled. Nothing daunted, he
crawled through the abatt is, over the gla
cis, into the river, inflated his waistcoat,
and made a bold stroke for freedom.
armed men a thousand miles across their own country
into the Gull’of Mexico.—Let them consider whether
they can do what Napoleon could not do in the plcnti-
tude of hi.--power with many times tlieir number, tlieir
stores, tlieir credit.and, above all, their military skill
and experience, bis school of Generals, and his supply
of veterans. What they purpose to do and tic is not
only to be as good as the Southerners, or a little
ln-tier, but overwhelming superior. Are they ? Is not
this an overwhelming opinion of themselves7 Can
they drive the Southerners like a flock of sheep, smoke
them out of tlieir own nests like wasps, ferret them
like rabbits, and ling them like trnir.e / Let t hem just
look forward u little and consider the probable state of
things next year, and the year after, and twenty years
hence. Even we who sang such songs of triumph in
1814 and 1815, leit that we and all Europe would have
done much better to think what we were aboutin I7ff3.
resight shows, and must slio’
must be two Federal ions, and thut on no other footing
will peace ever be made, it will be much better that
it should come to pass after one year’s war than after
ten or twenty. It is not as if the Union ortwo Unions
were the only alternative. As tlie war proceeds, i.o
limn can tell what new Powers and eoirihira:ions may
arise, and particularly how fertile Western States will
endure the tuxes and financial uliliga ions necessary
for the war. The advice we offer is only what the
Americans have given to ullfhe wir’d. It is a hank of
tlieir own cotton—a pipe of their own tobacco. Let
them consider uti t t teycando,and what neither tiny
nor all the world can do. At present they are only
giving a triumph to many a foe, for there is not a cir
cle of old absolutist statesmen ami diplomats who do
notread the story of tlieir difficulties and lever:es
with a bitter smile. They will hear wit hat least res
pect, perhaps with diaap;ointment, that the Noith
and South have agreed to pait friends.
L^'A Sunday school superintendent on
a visit to another Sunday school was in
vited to make some remarks. The lesson
of the school was on the Creation and the
Garden of Eden. From this he took his
cue, ond expatiated on the delights and
beauties that must have been in that sin
less Paridise—the trees and flowers, the
birds and animals, “and the little children
playing among the bushes!”
It. is very evident that there must have been
terrible mismanagement at St. Louis ; otherwise
the brave Mulligan and his devoted little hand
would not have feen left to their late.
From IVIissouri.
GLORIOUS CONFEDERATE VICTORY AT
LEXINGTON, MO.
Ftderal boss 3,500—Immense Quantity of Artille
ry, F.ijuipagz. t\-r , in the Uniats "f the I ictors—
Cot Muttixun Surrenders, esc., etc.
The Norfolk Day Book. [Extra] of yesterday,
contains the ioilowing gratifying intelligence,
which puts to rest all doubt as to the victory of
the Confederate forces at Lexington, Missouri.
The Day Book extracts from n copy of the New
York Herald, of the 24th, placed in the hands of
the editors by a gentleman who reached Norfolk
on Thursday after, oon in the “flagef truce boat ’
from Old Point.
THE SITUATION.
From the New York Herald, of the 21th.
Official information of the capture of Lexing
ton. Mo., and the surrender of the gallant Col.
Mulligan to the rebel forces of General Price,
reached the War Department yesterday; and as
no contradiction of the report comes from any
other quarter, we are unwillingly compelled to
receive it as authentic. Gen. Prentiss has dis
patched to St. Louis a statement of the surrender,
which reduced the loss ol- both sides considera
bly below the first reports. Col. Mulligan held
out bravely for four days against immense odds ;
and it is said only surrendered for want of water,
without which his men had to maintain themselves
for two days ; but there seems to he something
in this statement not quite consistent with the po
sition he occupied in close proximity to the Mis
souri liver.
According to our advices, his fortifications were
erected between the old and new towns, and ex
tended down to tlie river bluffs, at which point, as
far as our intelligence extends, the defences were
not assailed. How. then, bis water supply could
have b* en cut off, we arc at a loss to determine.
The latest accounts from Lexington, previous
to the announcement of the snraender, report the
movements of reinforcements to sustain Col. Mul
ligan, both by land and water. The steamers
White Cloud and Des Moines went up tbe river
on Saturday with three regiments to assist the
garrison at Lexington, and a force of 3.500 men,
he praise which the world awards to Generals | infautry, cavalry and artillery, and left St. Jo-
Johuston and Beauregard in connection with tlie j seph and Chillicothe, on the 15th inst., for the
battle of Manassas and the movements preparatory same point; hut it appears none of their rein-
to that engagement, is enhanced by their cordial | torcements arrived in time to save the garrison,
and generous conduct towards each other, and j which undoubtedly was compelled to yield to the
now much the confidence now reposed in them is j immensely superior torce of the rebels.
The promptness and energy of the Missourians,
now that they have taken the*fie!d in earnest,
may well put to shame better equipped armies
uni better prepared people. From the time when
tlie lawlul Governor was a fugitive from ids
home, and the few men the Sta’e authorities could
muster were driven to the State line and even in
to Aikausas—when Lyon was indeed a roaring
•ion, and Zcigel thought that his “seal must be
placed upon tlie mouth of every man who dared to
sympathize with tiie South,—from that time to
this ihe change has been remarkable, and Car.li
age, and Gait Hill, aud Lexington have done even
more towards breaking ihe prestige and lowering
the hopes of the Lincoluite iu the Great 7 alley
of the West, than even the gallant actions ot
Bethel, Bull Run and Manassas have effected in
the East.
Well indeed has the gallant Price offsett the raid
upon Hatteras. Well will the gain of thousands
of small arms, numbers ot cannon, heaps ot am
munition and stores and much gold pay foi the
comparatively tew prisoners, small military stores
and provisions, and meagre array of guns captured
at Hatteras.
But this does not yet wipe out or avenge Hat
teras for North Carolinia, save indirectly ; but it
does teach us the lesson that in cordial co-opera
tion and g md feeling lie the main elements of
success, aud in their absence lurk all the dangers
of defeat and failure. It is useless to disguise the
fact that something has been wrong iu Western
Virginia, that at no time has there been a lull aud
fair and heartfelt co-operation and sympathy be
tween the different Confederate commanders iu
that section. Tin re would appear to have really
been no concerted movements, or if the plans for
movements were concerted, some hitch has al
ways deranged the projected combinations. The
Rich Mountain and Laurel Hill disasters were oc
casioned most probably by the ’causes to which
we have alluded, since communications were not
kept up between the force under Col. Pegram
and that under General Garnett.
We tear that the retiograde movements seem
ing to be inevitable now in Western Virginia, are
only so from the lack of active concert there.—
1’liey might have assumed a different character
under the inspiration of better feeling, we must
think. However.Gov. Wise has withdrawn from
that section, and ha and Gov. Floyd need no
longer be jealous o( or unwilling to contribute to
the honor or glory or each other, and ue do trust
that all our commanders wiil remember how much
due to the perfect harmony aud good feeling
known to exist between them
[ It timing ton Juttrnal.
Kentucky and Tennessee ought to he sworn sis-
ers : we fear that they are likely for a time to oc
cupy posilions towards each other rather incon
sistent with the sisterly relation.
We have been kindly shown a letter received
here from a gentleman returned to Charleston
from Nashville. There is no going farther North
ihan that point. Kentucky is iu a perfect fer
ment. Every town and neighborhood in the
•Mate is divided into Unionists and Seeessionits,
and the worst of civil war is upon them.
The writer thinks that the majority in Kentucky
is still for tlie Union, but that all tiie young men
—the fighting men ire with us. Tho Confeder
ates have possession of the Nashville and Louis
ville R R. to Elizabethtown, some -15 miles South
of Louisville. They have also a large camp at
Bowling Green, (on the R R ) about 25 miles
over the Tennessee line, in Kentucky, and on tlie
Green River, which is navigable for steamboats
It is said that the Cabinet expressed considera
ble surprise, aud somo indignation, that Gen. Fre
mont did not reinforce Gen. Mulligan, as he has
plenty of men at his command. Gen Fremont
is reported now as about to tame the field in per
son against Gen. Price.
All was quiet on the lines of the Potomac yes
terday.
From the Richmond Enquirer, Sept. 1(3.
fro m Jlnrylnnii.
A gentleman reached this city last evening,
from Baltimore, which he left on Saturday last.
He reports that the statement was current that
Gen. McClellan had been shot, aud.that Professor
N. li. Smith, of Baltimore, had been sent for to
visit him, and on refusing was imprisoned. Of
the fact of Professor Smith’s imprisonment, there
was no doubt, though the alleged reasou was sim
ple rumor.
Tlie number of troops around Baltimore does
not exceed seven or eight thousand. They are
stationed part at Fort McHenry, part at Federal
from the Ohio as high as Bowling Green, but is j Hill, part at Janton, and pait at Relay, aud some
being rapidly fortified. Troops irom East Ten-1 a f T ranklin Square.
nessee, MissiszJjpi, Georgia and other Southern The troops who come through from the North
States are potj^[u«into the Confederate camps in : are jn squads of twenty to thirty, lor the purpose
Kentucky, aud numbers of Southern Kentuckians | tiding up companies, etc. Ihe wiioie number
ire joining them. Gen. Zollicoffer commands P M week is ll0t raiir “ 111811 a Imndred
the Confederate forces in the Southeast part oil The people of Maryland, «nr informant declares,
Kentucky, Gen. Pillow in the Southwest, while , only for Beauregard and Johnston to protect
Gen " ‘‘
A. S. Johnston commands the whole. The! ttem )rom lhe forces around Washington.
only difficulty is about arms. The sentiment all
over Tennessee (inclutlitig Fast Tennessee.) is
splendid. Every man in the State appears anx
ious and ready to fight. Indeed the applications
of men to go into tlie war keep far ahead of the
ability of the government to arm them. There
will he no “backward movement” there.—
The fighting wilt no doubt be very hard, but the
people of Tennessee have no donbt of the result,
they only complain of the slowness of the Con
federate government; they want to push ahead
t he writer adds as his own opinion that that is cur
OXI.Y safe policy.— Wilmington Journal.
It is to bo, feared that jealousies between
leaders of the Confederate troops in West
ern Virginia have impaired their useful
ness, however patriotic or gallant they
may have been personally. It may be
questioned whether tlie history of the mil
itary movements on the Central-Western
line of the Kanawha exhibit as cordial a
co-operation between Ex-Governors Wise
and Floyd as the friends of the cause and
of these gentlemen could have desired.—
it is likely that the existence of this state
of things explains the presence of Genera!
Wise in Richmond, and his withdrawal
or retirement from service in the Western
portion of the State. It is more than
probable that bis future field of labor will
be in the East.—'Wilmington Journal.
Let them cross the Potomac »o as to prevent Mc
Clellan from throwing himself upon Baltimore,
arid the Marylanders will do the rest.
The war feeling at the North is said to have
subsided. Commerce is prostrated, and business
at an end. Iu Pennsylvania particularly, the
struggle between the war and peace parties is
very excited.
How long shall Maryland languish under the
foot of the invader ?
The news from the South, he says, is conveyed
over the liver to Washington, by the wives of the
tories who have fled from Virginia, and are acting
as Lincoln’s police on ihe Maryland shore. T hese
women aie strangely allowed to communicate with
their husbands and thus post them with the
Southern news.
The nert Great Battle.— Bennett Preparing fur de
feat.—The Herald of Wednesday, says :
A terrible battle is at hand between the 400,-
000 troops on the banks of tho Potomac—200,-
(IO(i on eilher side—a battle which will be greater
than that of Wateiloo, and will probably be
decesive against the party which loses it. The
mighty results depending on it will involve the
destiny of the people ot this continent, and per
haps of modern civilization. If there should he
a partial defeat of the Federal army, let the abo
lition leaders who instigated tlie rebellion aud the
war—Phillips, Garrison, Greeley, Beecher, Chee-
ver, Tappan, Joy, and their associates—look out
for another country, as this will be too hot to hold
them. If there should be a total deteat of the
Federal army, together with the capture of Wash
ington, let the anti slavery demogogues, who for
the last thirty years have been stirring up the em
bers of strife, which resulted in the Southern re
volt, look out as fast as they can for somo asylum
beyond the limits of the American continent, for
this is the only way in which they can consult the
safety of their imperilled necks.
A word to Planters.—A leading factor
in this city informs us that be lias just re
ceived eight bales of cotton, and is utterly
at a loss what disposition lie shall make
of it. We advised him to ship it back to
tbe consigner as there is no sale for it
here, and it can be insured fofia less sum
on the plantation than in tbe city; and
lastly, and it is tbe most important consid- j by Henry Broadburu, oueof
. 1 . , Col. Mulligan s soldiers, who left Lexuigtou on
The Seige and ihe Surrender of Lexington.
The Ioilowing account of the siege of Lexing
ton. (says the Herald,) is furnished to the St.
eration, we again assure the planters and
interior buyers that it is folly to ship cot
ton to tbe sea-board; it will not be sold,
and, what is worse, it may be tbe last they
Saturday morning:
The fort was sutrendered on Friday afternoon.
The men fought tor fifty-nine hours without wa
ter, and hail only three bbls. of vinegar to quench
! their thirst. During all that time there were no
will hear of it. Keep it on ^tlie plantation j springs or wells of water in the camp ground,
and you will find insurance in any of the j has been stated. The supply of water was en-
1 tirely from the river. There were breastworks all
cities.
In this connection we refer to tbe
card of Messrs. Wilber & Gleason, who
have arrangements to take all such risks.
Savannah Rejtublican Sept. 27.
TIIE BUBOFEAX COALITION AGAINST
MEXICO.
The London Shipping Gazelle of the 11th, con
tains the following in relation to the position and
disposition of Europe—particularly England and
France—towards Mexico:
The expectation that a combined Anglo-Freneh
naval and military expedition is to be immediately
organized, to obtain redress for the indignities
and injuries inflicted on British and French inter
ests in Mexico, is regarded w ith satisfaction by all
who have watched the painful consequences of the
toleration so long show n to the various govern
ments in that, country. It is reported that Spain
also is anxiously desirous of some respectatde ad
justment, that, it may put an end lo the prevailing
horrors: and the'private letters last received from
Mexico, reiterate the assertion that foreign inter
vention is prayed for by the whole, population,
with the exception of military or political robbers,
by whom the existing anarchy has been created.—
Under the circumstances, too. it is assumed that
the Federal Cabinet at Washington will ho dis
posed cordially to co-operate in the work, so that
it shall permanently conc iliate ali rational elaims
Whether the question is to he dealt with by the
general combination wlrieh seems thus in prospect,
or by England and France alone, it is evident that
further delay is at an end.
It is surmised in some quarters that it is the ob
ject ot the two powers to have a strong force in
the Mexican waters, and thus take, advantage of
any contingency that may arise during the pend
ing conflict between the Northern and Southern
States.
Engagement on the Potomac—Tiro Federal I cs-
srls Disabled.—Intelligence w as received here yes
terday, through official eliaunels, of an engage
ment on Wednesday between one of our batteries
on the Botoinac and a number of Federal vessels,
w hich were descending the river for the purpose,
it is supposed, of making a reconnoissauce. The
action occurred off Evnnsport.—some distance
around the camp, with the exception of the portion
next tho river. It was he.e that the hardest fight
ing took place
Toe rebels procured a large number of hemp
bales and rolled them in advance, and under this
cover gradually succeeded in securing a positiou
in the rear. They then cut off the supply of wa
ter, and hud the fort surrounded.
They made hut few charges upon the breast
works during the entire siege. Their object
seemed to be to surround the fort and cut off the
supply of water, and, having succeeded in this,
they waited until Col. Mnliigau was compelled to
yield to a force more terrible than the 27,000 rebels
who surrounded him.
After the surrender tho rebels mounted the
breastworks and seemed mad with joy and de
light. Alter the surrender the rebels took down
the Union flag and trailed it in the dust.
An immense amount of gold, supposed to be
about a quarter of a million of dollars, fell into
the possession oI the rebels. It was taken from
the banks and buried by Col. Mulligan in the
camp ground some time ago, but tlie rebels speedily
discovered and unearthed it.
Col. Mulligan wept like a child when he found
himself compelled to surrender. Tlie morning
after the men were all released on parole and
sent across the river. The officers were retained.
The first attack of the rebels proved more dis
astrous lo them than the long siege that followed.
For a day or two previous to the last attack they
were busily enaged in burying tlieir dead.
Latest.—Gen. Price had. on Saturday, 14th,
given Col. (Acting General) Mulligan until Mon
day to surrender, or take tho alternative of battle.
The object of Gen. Price was not so much in giv
ing the Uuion troops a chance to surrender as to
enable Gen. Rains and his rebel forces, together
with a number of smaller bodies of marauders
under Martin Green and others, all of whom were
matching, from various sources, to join him —
Price’s force must, therefore, have been enlarged
to about 17,1'tW. In the commencement of the
siege he had about >3,000. The Union force con
sisted of about 3,500.
Drafting for the Federal army was to have com
menced iu Iowa on the 23d, so says a Chicago
ATrsso&iVsr.
ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS
of the Seeund Session of the
provisional congress
OF THK
CONFEDERATE STATE*.
1361.
[No. 241-1
[No. 256.1
I AN ACT to amend the second section of “an sot „ c
j cermng tlie transportation of soldiers and nil,,- Coft '
for doming of Volunteers, and amendatory
! *'>'• Hie establishment and organization nf -
i army ot tbe Contederute States.’ ' tin-
! .Section 1. The .Congress of the Confederate
ot Aiuenen do enact, That the Secretary „f w„V •
; ami lie is hereby authorized aud required to nri
| us far ns possible, clothing for the entire forces f n ’
I Confederate States, and lo furnish the same1 0 ' * le
| regiment or company upon the requisition of the I” 7
I niander thereof, the quantity, quality and kind ,i, '
to be establisaed by requisition of tne BenarimJ7.
be approved by the Piesideut: and, in case unv Si tU
siiali lurnish to ils troops and voluuteers in the (•
federate service such clothing, thin the Secretar ""i
War is required to pay over to tbe (iovmi ,
. . . .o .toiiirea to pay over to the (t.,v ur . •
AN ACT making appropriations for the expenses °f - Stale uie money value of the clothim. :or f " f
the Government in the Legislative, Executive and , nishc(1 J lmn S so f ar
Judicial Departments, for the year ending eigli-'
teenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-
two.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That the following sums be, and the same
are hereby appropriated out of any money in the
Treasure not otherwise appropriated, for the objects
hereafter expressed, for the year ending the eighteenth
of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two :
Lnoisr.iTivE.—For compensation and mileage ot
members of Congress, forty-five thousand dollars.
Executive.—For contingent and telegraphic ex
penses of tne Executive office, two thousand five
hundred dollars.
Dei-ahtxext oe Justice.—For incidental and eon
ti
pnny shall have the privilege of receiving eianm!!! 0 '
tiou for clothing at tue rate of twenty-five dollars * 1
man tor every six months, when they shall liavas”
uislied tlieir own clothing. lur ’
Approved Aug. 30, lbol.
[Kolarb T
AN ACT to authorize tbe establishment of recruit'
stations for Volunteers from tlieStates of Keutu V *
Missouri, Maryland and Delaware. •’
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate Stat
of America do enact. T hat the President be, and he^*
hereby authorized to establish recruiting siatimis wat*
Dei-aiitment of jusT.cE.-rormc. o oo, .00 . ..0- . h Confederate States for the reception f v „i
tingent expenses, including pnnting and advertising teers „ K , mllitary service of tile Confede«
the law's, two thousand five bundled ( o a.. States from among persons who are. or Lv.. i.*'
For salary of the Law Clerk of the Department of
Justice, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For salary of Superintendent of Public Printing,
and Clerk and Messenger in bis office, three thousand
dollar
States Irian among persons w bo are, or have bee'"
ressdentsof the States of Kentucky, Missouri Man-
lam! and Delaware. " ’
Sec. 2. That the President be authorized to grant
commissions as Captains to such persons as he ina*
, , „ ... c n.. i think fit to raise and command companies to h«
above Aequia Creek—where a powerful battery of j dispafela to the Cincinnati Commercial, orders to
rifled cannon has been constructed (as the enemy
have now reason to know,) tinder the command of
Gen. Holmes Cur lire was opened from the
“masked battrry” upon the vessels, in mid chan
nel, with terrible < fleet. Two of the steamers
were crippled, being towed away as the enemy
were hauling off. The loss of life is not stated.
The point where tho enemy encountered onr
battery is understood to he one of the most com
manding oil the river, being a high bluff of crest
ot ground between two creeks, which are tributa
ry to the Potomac. It commands the channel of
the river point blank.— Rich. Examiner, 27th inst.
Extract from onr of Kennel's Editorial...
Speaking on tbe subject, of Lincoln’s proclama
tion about Fremont, the Herald says:
Genera! Fremont ought to have aided the Pres
ident in Missouri. Instead of that he become a
source of weakness and embarrassment to him.
When lie entered upon his duties in that State the
rebels bad been swept out as chaff before the wind.
But now more tlinn half the State has been recon
quered by the Confederate arms. Disaster affer
disaster has befallen our arms there. The death
of LyoD, and the retreat from Sprinfield caused
from want of those reinforcements which Gen
Fremont ought to have sent, are now followed up
by the still more disastrous capture of Lexington
from the same cause, including the loss of 3,500
of the best troops, who were sacrificed by neglect,
the gain of all their small arms, artillery, ammuni
tion, and equipage, together with three thousand
horses to the cause ot the rebels, to say nothing
of tbe moral effect of such a misfortnne.
that effect having been issued ou Saturday, the
21st.
A Washington dispatch says: It is ascertained
that General Patterson’s campaign in Virginia
cost the Government |sl0,0i.0,0(10. The sole re
sult was the capture of twenty-eight fugitive
slaves, nearly all of whom were returned to their
masters.
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troduction of “Jacob’s Cholera, Dysentery and Diar-
rhu-a Cordial” iuto Japan, will, to say the least of it,
be an extraordinary movement, nml one which philan
thropists every where will watch with profound inter
est.
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1 life Executive Department
tionof the act of May fourteenth, eighteen hundred
andsixty-oue. seven thousand dollars.
Treasury Department.—For one Chief Clerk to
aid the First Auditor in auditing the accounts of the
Post Office Department, at two thousand dollars per
annum, per act approved May sixteenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, the sum of one thousand five
hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-seven cents.
For fifteen clerks, at twelve hundred dollars each,
the sum of thirteen thousand six huudred and twenty-
five dollars and eighty-two cents.
For fourteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each,
the sum of ten thousand five hundred ami ninety-seven
dollars and eighty-five cents.
For one messenger, at live hundred dollars per an
num, the sum of three hundred and seventy-eight dol
lars and forty-nine cents.
For one Chief Clerk for Second Auditoi’s office, at
fourteen hundred dollars per annum, per act approved
May twenty-first, eighteen hundred aud sixtv-one, the
sum of one thousand forty-four dollars and thirty-nine
cents.
For Five Clerks,per same nef, at twelve huudred
dollars each, the sum of four thousand four hundred
and seventy-six dollars.
For five clerks, per same net, at one thousand dollars
each, tlie smn of turee thousand seven hundred and
thirty dollars.
Judiciary.—For salaries ot Judges and District
Attorneys of the Confederate States, and incidental
and contingent expenses of Courts, twenty-two thou
sand dollars.
Public Debt.—For interesfc on the public debt, two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Approved Aug. 24,1861.
[No. 243.J
AN ACT to authorize the issue of inscribed stock in
the stead of Coupon Beads.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That in all eases where bonus
are until >riz -1 to be issued under the acts of Congress,
to raise money tor the use of tlie Contederate States,
the Secretary of the Treasury, at the request of the
party interested, may cause to he issued, instead of
Bonds, Certificates of Inscribed Stock, payable to ol
der, transferable at the Treasury for the same amount
ot principal, at the same rate of interest, and pay
able at the same dates as are prescribed for the
Bonds.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any per
son simil falsely make, forge or counterfeit, or cause,
. r procure to be lalsely made, forged or counterfeited,
or willingly aid or ussist in falsely making, or forging,
or counterfeiting any certificate of stock, ill imitation
of or purporting to be, a certificate ot stock, issued in
av-ordunce with the provisions of any acts of Congress
authorizing the issue of any certificate of stock,
shall pass, utter or publish, or attempt to pass, utter or
publish, as true, any faise, forged or counterfeited cer
tificate of stock, purporting to be a certificate I if stock
as aforesaid, knowing the same to be falsely made,
forged, or counterfeited, or shall falsely alter, or cause
orp.ocure to be falsely altered, or willingly aid or assist
in falsely altering any certificate of stock, issued as
aforesaid,or shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to
pass, utter or publish, as true, any falsely altered cer
tificate of stock, issued as aforesaid, knowiug tlie same
to be falsely altered, every such person shall be deemed
and adjudged guilty of felony, and being thereof con
victed by due course of law, shall be sentenced to be
imprisoned and kept at labor for a period ot not less
than three years, not more than ten years, and be fined
in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars.
Approved, Ang. 24, 1861.
[No. 246.]
AN ACT to establish Assay Offices at Charlotte anu
Dahlonega.
Section 1. The Congresi of the Confederate States
of America do enact. That tlie President he, and lie is
hereby authorized to appoint an Assayer at Charlotte
North Carolina, and nuotner at D.mlonega, in the
State of Georgia, whose duty it shall be to assay and
certify the fineness and value of such gold and silver
us may be submitted to them respectively to be as
sayed.
Sec. 2. The said Assurers shall, respectively,execute
a bond of the Confederate States, with sufficient sure
ties, in such sum as may be approved by the Secre
tary of tbe Treasury, to discharge the duties of his office
aud shall take oatli to discharge the said unties and
to support tbe Constitution of the Confederate States;
whereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall place in
Ills charge, and subjeetto his use, the buildings used
for the mint, and tlie tools and implements used there
ill.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the said Assayer to
take proper care of the said buildings, grounds and
property, keep the same in good repair, and to restore
tae same to the Confederate States in like condition in
which they were received; he shall bold his office foi
two years; and shall employ under him, at such rates
as he may agree upon, such workmen and inferioi
officers as he may see fit.
See. 4. The whole expense of the establishment shall
be defrayed by the Assayer: and, in order to defray
the same and to receive a reasonable compensation foi
his service, lie shall be entitled to retain from atl
metals or ores submitted to him for assay, such
seignorage or charge as will enable him to receive
an annual salary not exceeding two thousaud dol
lars.
Sec. 5. The said Assayers shall, from time to time,
ns required tiy tlie Secretary of the Treasury, make
an ace urate report of ail proceedings at their offices,
in such form as may be requited by tlie Secretary; anu
tlieir officers shall, at all times; be subject to such or
ders and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury
may from time to time, make or direct.
Approved Aug. 24. 1861.
[No. 247.J
AN ACT making additional appropriations for the
Navy of tbe Confederate States, for tlie year ending
February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-
two.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That there be appropriated, out of unv
j money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated,
i for the year ending February eighteenth, eighteen
■ hundred aud sixty-two. tho following sums lor the
! Navy:
| For the pnrehase and building of steamers and
gnn-boats for coast defences of the Confederate States,
I the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
I For repairing uud fitting the steamer Merrimacason
I iron-clad ship, the spin of one hundred and seventy-
I two thousand five hundred aud tweutv-three dollars.
| For raising the ships-of-tlie-line Columbus, Dela-
| ware, Pennsylvania, uud the brig Dolphin, the sum of
' twenty-five thousand dollars.
For pay, subsistence, ami other wants of five Imn-
j died additional seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen
and boys, and firemen and coal beavers, the sum of
ninety thousand dollars.
For medical supplies and surgeon's necessaries, tlie
sum of four thousand dollars.
To pay employees at the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Vir
ginia, from the first day of July, eighteen huudred and
sixty-one, to the eighteenth of February, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, the sum of six thousand seven
hundred dollars.
For floatin'' defences for New Orleans, Louisiana,
eight hundred thousand dollars.
To construct sub-marine batteries for the destruc
tion of vessels, fifty thousand dollars.
To construe 1 a centrifugal gun, invented by Charles
S. Dickinson, subject to the condition of the Act
passed for that purpose, five thousand dollars.
For expenditures iu the Ordnance Department of
the Navy Yard at Norfolk, for the year ending Feb
ruary eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,
one huudred an-.l fifteen thousand and fifty-one dol
lars.
For the construction, equipment and armament of
two iron-clad gnu-boats, for tne defence of tlie Missis
sippi river and the city of Memphis, one huudred and
sixty-thousand dollars.
Approved Aug. 24,1861.
[No. 248]
AN ACT to repeal the fourth section of “an act to
regulate foreign coins in the Confederate States,"
approved March 16th, 18-Jt, and for other purposes.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact. That from and after the passage
of this Act, the fourth section of “An Act to regulate
Foreign Coins in the Confederate States,” approved
March 16, 1861. be, amt tiie same is hereby repealed,
and that hereafter tlie following gold coin shall pass I
current as m-mey within the Confederate States of I
America, and be receivable for tbe payment of ail |
debts and demands at the following rates, that is to
say : The Sovereign of England, of no less a weight
than five pennyweights and three graius, and of the
fineness of (‘.)15 1-2) nine hundred and fifteen and one
half tliousamletlis, shall be deeme i equal to four dot-
lars and eighty-five cents; the Napoleon, of the weight
ot not less than (4dwt. and 3 1-2 grains^ four penny
weights, three grains and one half, and of a fineness of
not less than (8!»;U eight hundred and ninety-nine
tuousandetlis, shall be deemed equal to three dollars
and eighty-five cents; the Spauisli and Mexican
Doubloons, of no less a weight than (17 dwt.8 l-2gns.l
seventeen pennyweights, eight grains and one-half, anil
of the fineness of not less than (ftffi 1 ) eight hundred and
ninety-nine thousandeths, shall be deemed equal to
fifteen dollars and sixty cents.
Approved Ang. 24, 1861.
[No- 233.]
AN ACT to fix the fees und costs in Admiralty ca
ses.
The Congress of the Confederate States of Ameri-
ica do enact, That for all services rendered by
clerks, marshals, and district attorneys io admiralty ca
ses in the Confederate Coarts, and for which no com
pensation is now fixed by law, there shall be paid to
said officers, and allowed to them in the settlement of
their accounts, tte same costs and fees as were allowed
under the laws of tbe United States in like cases, which
were iu force on tbe eighteenth February, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one.
Approved Ang. 29,1861.
ever, that such officers shall not hold rank nr receive
pay until such companies have beeu raised and are
mustered into service.
Sec. 3. Whenever such recruits shall amount to «
sufficient number to he formed into coinpatu,., the
President may direct the same to be organized, no
pointingall commissioned officers of the several coin
panics in addition to the captains provided for in (U
preceding section. And such companies may he or.
gauized into regiments in like manner, under the dj”
lection of the President.
Sec. 4. Until such recruits shall amount to a snffi.
cient number to he organized into companies, tVv
shall receive no compensation except their eloti,,, h
and rations. *
Approved August 30, 1861.
20 4t.
Cougressiounl Districts.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Appling.
Glvnn,
Bryan,
Liberty,
Bulloch,
McIntosh,
Chatham,
Montgomery,
Pierce,
Camden,
Charlton,
Scriven,
Clinch,
Telfair,
Coffee,
Tattnall,
Effingham,
Ware,
Emanuel,
Wayne,
SECOND DISTRICT.
Baker,
Irwin,
Berrien.
Lee,
Brooks,
Lowndes.
Calhoun,
Mitchell,
Clay,
Miller,
Colquitt,
Randolph,
Dooly
Terrel,
Decatur
Thomas,
Dougherty,
Wilcox,
Early,
Echols,
Worth.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Chattahoochee,
Stewart
Harris,
Sumter,
Muscogee,
Schley,
Marion,
Taylor,
Talbot,
Macon,
Quitman,
Webster.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Baldwin,
Laurens,
Bibb,
Pulaski,
Crawford,
Putnam,
Jasper,
Twiggs,
Wilkinson,
Jones,
Houston.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Burke,
Lincoln,
Columbia,
Richmond,
Glasscock,
17 arreu,
Wilkes,
Ha ncock.
Jefferson,
Johnson.
Washington,
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Clark,
Madison.
Elbert,
Morgan
Franklin,
Newton,
Greene,
Oglethrope,
Hart,
Taliaferro,
Jackson,
Walton.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Butts,
Monroe,
Clayton,
Pike,
Fayette,
Spalding,
Henry,
Troup,
Meriwether,
Upson.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Campbell
Fulton,
Carroll,
Haralson,
Cobb,
Heard,
Coweta,
Paulding,
DeKalb,
Polk
NINTH DISTRICT,
Banks.
Lumpkin,
Cherokee,
Milton,
Dawsou,
Pickens,
Forsyth,
Rabun,
Gwinnett,
Towns,
Habersham,
Union,
Hall,
White.
TENTH DISTRICT.
Cass.
Gordon,
Catoosa,
Gilmer,
Chattooga,
Murray,
Dade.
Walker,
Fannin,
Floyd,
Whitfield.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Practical Advick to Ladies.-The first symptom*
of disease should never be disregarded, if not removed
serious evils will inevitably follow, and in seeking as
sistance all remedies that will act violently or reduce
the strength should be avoided. They, instead of o
listing nature, weaken and delibitute those organs.
For Female Complaints, take McLean’s Strength
ening Cordial and Blood Purifier. It rtand*
pre-eminent iuall diseases peculiar to females. Iry g
it is a delicious aromatic Cordial. hi *A.
See ad vertieeuient In another column.
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the Missouri -Democrat:
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August, the following cases have been reportedputw-
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ISO 44 Who have beeu afflicted with vanuw
complaints, Fever, Chronic Diarrhoea, Dywf* 1 /'
Liver Complaiut, Night Sweats, Dyspeosia, aud “
ness of the Digestive Organs, have been cured, beade*
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southern country. It is very pleasant and agree* ^
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or Bladder, as an alterative, it will purity the b•»***•
and remove all pimples, sores or blotches from
skin. .
Try it—one drachm is sufficient to convince them* •
sceptical of its wonderful strengthening aud invigorate
properties.
See Advertisement in another column.
1. R. R.
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